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Pasadena City College’s porn professor Hugo Schwyzer admitted Thursday he had sex with students as recently as 2011 and said he has admitted himself to a psych ward for the fifth time this summer.

As a result of Schwyzer’s admission, college officials issued a statement saying there would be an immediate investigation into his conduct.

Schwyzer, who last semester taught a class titled “Navigating Porn” and invited adult stars James Deen and Jessica Drake to speak to students, acknowledged he made the admission on the Internet in connection with Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of 10 days of atonement in the Jewish faith.

In an interview Thursday night from the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula, Schwyzer also said he’d been on a “manic high” for two days prior to his confession.

“I want people to have compassion for me and to recognize that if they are frustrated or angry with me I did ... things because I am sick,” he said. “I’m a fraud.”

A written statement on behalf of PCC, signed by General Counsel Gail Cooper, said the institution on East Colorado Boulevard does not “condone or tolerate such behavior by any faculty member.”

On Tuesday a woman who identified herself as a former PCC student wrote on a blog about having sex with Schwyzer in his campus office in 2008. The former student said she knew of at least one other girl who also had sex with the porn professor.

Schwyzer said the woman’s claim had merit, but he didn’t remember the second student.

“I was fraudulent in that I stated it was wrong for older men to have sexual relationships with younger women,” he said. “But in practice I continued to have relationships with women who were young enough to be my daughter and there’s a lot of fraud and hypocrisy in that.”

Known as a “male feminist” Schwyzer both wrote and spoke about how men themselves could help empower women.

“I think I was a terrible male feminist. I think I’ve damaged the brand of male feminism,” he said. “No one can hate me more than I hate myself right now and I’m saying that as a mental patient in a psych ward.”

In a statement issued late Thursday afternoon, PCC officials said the college would “act swiftly to conduct an investigation and hold Mr. Schwyzer accountable for his actions while an employee.”

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The student, who identified herself as “Megan Moore” said she enrolled in Schwyzer’s History 25B class “Women in American Society” in spring semester 2011. After meeting for coffee at Starbucks on North Hill Street and Walnut Avenue, the student said she developed a relationship with Schwyzer.

After that, “We continued to meet for sex, sometimes in his office with the door locked, for the next seven months until I graduated PCC in December 2011,” she wrote.

“Throughout his spectacular recent fall from grace Hugo has maintained that he never slept with his students after 1998,’ she continued. “That simply isn’t true. I know one other girl besides myself with whom Hugo was having sex the same semester.”

In a July 31 interview with this newspaper, Schwyzer insisted he no longer dated his students and helped write the school’s policy on sexual relationships.

“I’ve been warned not to talk about my past,” he wrote in an email. “An earlier administration, well aware of my history with students, decided not to fire me and indeed asked me to write the college policy that forbade consensual relationships.”

In their Thursday statement, college officials said that if their investigation determined the porn prof had sex with students he would likely be fired.

“All of us in the college are outraged by Mr. Schwyzer’s statements about his conduct,” the statement said.

In a email, Cooper addressed the porn professor’s status with the college.

“Mr. Schwyzer is on extended medical leave initiated at his request,” Cooper wrote. “Due to his right of privacy, we cannot comment on the reason. Generally speaking, an employee who is on extended medical leave does not come onto campus due to his or her condition. We do not expect Mr. Schwyzer to seek to do so.”

Schwyzer said he might seek to file a claim of psychiatric disability.

“It could be an end around for them,’ he said. “I’m looking very seriously at that option.”